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study corn for all Solutions for Class 9: Ch 1 The Fun they Had
Page No: 10
Thinking About Text
I. Answer these questions in a few words or a couple of sentences
each.
1. How old are Margie and Tommy?
2. What did Margie write in her diary?
3. Had Margie ever seen a book before?
4. What things about the book did she find strange?
5. What do you think a telebook is?
6. Where was Margie’s school? Did she have any classmates?
7. What subjects did Margie and Tommy learn?
Answer
1. Margie is eleven and Tommy is thirteen-year-old.
2. Margie wrote, “Today Tommy found a real book!”.
3. No, Margie had never seen a book before.
4. Margie found it strange that the words printed on a book stood still
instead of moving the way they did on a screen. She also found it odd
that the words on a page always remained the same as the first time
they were read. Besides, the idea that someone would write a book
about schools was itself strange for Margie.
5. A book that can be displayed on a screen is called telebook.
6. Margie’s school was in her home itself, right next to her bedroom.
No, she did not have any classmates.
7. Margie and Tommy learned geography, history and arithmetic.
II. Answer the following with reference to the story.
1. “I wouldn’t throw it away.”
(i) Who says these words?
(ii) What does ‘it’ refer to?
(iii) What is it being compared with by the speaker?
Answer
(i) Tommy said these words.
(ii) 'It' refers to the television screen, on which you could read over a
million books
(iii) Tommy is comparing the television screen to the real books in
earlier times in which words were printed on paper. He thought that
after reading such books, one would have to throw them away.
However, he would never have to throw away his telebooks.
2. “Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn’t a regular teacher. It was a
man.”
(i) Who does ‘they’ refer to
8. How does he describe the old kind of teachers?
Answer
Tommy said that the old kind of teachers was men, who taught the
students inside a special building. The teachers taught the children in
groups and gave them homework and asked them questions.
IV. Answer each of these questions in two or three paragraphs (100 –
150 words).
1. What are the main features of the mechanical teachers and the
schoolrooms that Margie and Tommy have in the story?
Answer
Margie and Tommy had mechanical teachers. They had large black
screens on which all the lessons were shown and questions were asked.
They had a slot in which students had to put their homework and test
papers. They had to write their answers in a punch code and the
mechanical teacher calculated the marks immediately. Their schools
were in their homes itself. They did not have any classmates. They
learned geography, history and arithmetic. They had regular days and
hours for school. Margie's school was right next to her bedroom. The
mechanical teacher always turned on at the same time every day
except Saturdays and Sundays because her mother said that little girls
learned better when they learned at regular hours.